Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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